New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1955. First American edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Early owner signature to blank flyleaf, very minor edge-wear to dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "I SUDDENLY SAW THAT ALL THE TIME IT WAS NOT I WHO HAD BEEN SEEKING GOD, BUT GOD..... More
New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1939. First American edition. Octavo, original burnt orange cloth, bottom edge uncut, original dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket with small creased tear to top rear panel, very faint toning to spine and edges. A handsome copy. "THE HEAVENLY SECRETS OPENED UPON THEM, AND THERE..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. First American edition. original navy cloth, lettered in white, original dust jacket. Early owner signature, jacket clipped but price intact, very faint edge-wear to bright clean jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "MISEDUCATION OF YOUNG MINDS" First American edition of The Abolition of Man, collecting a series..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1947. First edition. 12 mo., original red cloth, original dust jacket. Neat verso reinforcement to corners and ends of unclipped original jacket. A near-fine copy. "LET THE CHURCH REMEMBER THIS: THAT EVERY MAKER AND WORKER IS CALLED TO SERVE GOD IN HIS PROFESSION—NOT OUTSIDE IT" First..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1956]. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Small owner label to corner of blank flyleaf, blank pocket on rear flyleaf, small bookseller's label to rear pastedown, slight toning and creasing to spine of bright, clean, unclipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. "TO FORBID..... More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1978. First edition thus. Octavo, original purple cloth over lavender boards, original dust jacket. Upper right corner bumped. About-fine. "AS MY WHIMSICAL LORD TAKES ME" First Macmillan edition of these "simple, powerful reflections on the human condition in the scientific age," a splendid introduction to..... More